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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Overview of this book

Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means to manage users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy features and tools, which make it uniquely the Learning system of the present as well as the future.This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the previous book, Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools and features, this book delivers everything you need to know.Written by Alan Berg, a Sakai fellow and former Quality Assurance Director of the Sakai Foundation and Ian Dolphin the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation with significant contributions from the Sakai community, Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide is a comprehensive study of how Sakai CLE should be used, managed, and maintained, with real world examples and practical explanations.The book opens with an overview of Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. Next, the underlying structures and tools are described. In using Sakai for Teaching and Collaboration, there is a detailed discussion of how to structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students, from creating course sites to understanding their use in different organizations around the world.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Sakai CLE Courseware Management
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Terminology
Index

Chapter 17. Looking Ahead: Sakai OAE

Sakai has been an extremely successful open source project. The many leading universities around the world using the Sakai environment as their primary course management and academic collaboration system attest to this success. Yet, much has changed in the world over the lifetime of the Sakai project. There has been an explosion of online learning. In the United States alone, Sloan-C reported that over 4.6 million students — one in four American college students — took at least one online course in 2008. And since those numbers represent a 17% increase from the previous year, it is fair to expect that the numbers are now substantially higher. This trend is global. Meanwhile, the Internet itself has changed dramatically with the popularization of so-called "Web 2.0" technologies and the explosion of social networking.

The Sakai community was formed around the early recognition that software supporting academic collaboration should support a continuum between...